Online abuse is driving women out of public life. It’s time to act
Bjarnadóttir, M.
(8 January 2018)
Online abuse is driving women out of public life. It’s time to act.
Democratic Audit Blog.
Public scrutiny is one thing, but the degree of online abuse now suffered by female political candidates is another. The Independent Committee for Standards in Public Life has recommended that platforms be held liable for hate speech and incitement to violence – but, writes María Rún Bjarnadóttir (University of Sussex), domestic UK law currently does not [...]
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2018 The Author(s) |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 28 Apr 2021 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/109573 |